Barefoot and Progressive

• Big Shocker: Bar None Big Fail

  What do you get when a "bar" opens up that doesn't serve "alcohol" and is run by fundie wingnuts?
  
  From Bar None's Facebook page this weekend:
  
  "Bar None is growing. The menu is getting better all the time. More groups are booking parties. We are'" [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:27pm EST
  

• David O'Neill for PVA (and sanitization from the Steve Henry crowd)

  David O'Neill is running for reelection as the Fayette County Property Value Administrator next year. I endorse him one billion percent. Here's what he is handing out as campaign swag:
  
  
  Besides being the greatest swag ever, the hand sanitizer is quite fitting, considering that' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 4:08pm EST
  

• Help the Distillery District tonight

  From the Facebook event:
  Please join ProgressLex, Buster's, The Blue Grass Trust For Historic Preservation, The Town Branch Trail, Barrel House Distilling and others in supporting the Lexington Distillery District at Buster's Billiards & Backroom on Monday, november 30, 2009 from 5-7.
  
  The Distillery District is at a' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:07pm EST
  

• The Webbs are liars: part 857

  Going through my archives of the past year in order to make my 2009 Rooties Awards (coming soon), I was once again reminded what pathetic liars the Webbs are.
  
  Remember, in Dudley Webb's ego's letter published in the Herald-Leader, he said he found out about the "mystery investor's"' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:43pm EST
  

• Wall Street Journal Night at Bar None, yo!

  Our favorite batshit crazy pizzabagger has BREAKING NEWS for us! Come to Bar None Tuesday night to put on a good face for the Wall Street Journal, so they can write about how awesome KY teabaggers are! (I took the White Male Liberty of highlighting my favorite parts)
  Fellow [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:55pm EST
  

• Creepy

  I can't tell if YD is spiking it in the end zone, putting on a display of that best-in-state snark, or both, but my reaction to the SBC declaring that more than half of the state is hellbound is firmly "concerned".
  I say that as a recovered(ing?)' [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 11:32am EST
  

• Grayson/Paul poo flinging

  Trey Grayson:
  “The celebrity factor is what is attracting people now,” said Mr. Grayson, who was a lawyer before being elected secretary of state in 2003. “Mr. Paul has his dad’s following and his dad’s e-mail list, and he has shown he can raise money outside the state.”
  
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 5:21pm EST
  

• The invisible unicorn hoof of the market greets rural Kentucky

  Middlesboro and Clinton, KY: Meet the good folks at AIG.
  Here is how the AIG takeover went down: In 2005, flush with cash from its shady dealings in the mortgage derivatives market, AIG announced that it was in the process of acquiring Utilities Inc., a holding company that controlled [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 3:44pm EST
  

• Newt's Nook

  Newt Gingrich: Lover of Pitbulls and Titties on da grillz.
  A North Texas shelter for pit bulls has opened this week, thanks to a Dallas topless club owner's contribution after Newt Gingrich's conservative group snubbed her donation.
  
  The former U.S. House speaker's political organization was set to give [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:41pm EST
  

• Real America

  Wowzers.
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:32pm EST
  

• Turkey Day from the Central Time Zone

  
  
  Tomorrow, I'll not be toiling for deals, and I hope you'll do the same.
  
  Renee wonders what we're really giving thanks for.
  
  Gobble gobble.' [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:27am EST
  

• Thursday Afternoon Tryptophan Break

  Here's a bunch of old white people listening to somebody rap about the Bible.
  
  
  
  Not bad, but nowhere near as good as my Side-Huggin Homies for Christ
  
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 5:30pm EST
  

• The question that anti-choicers refuse to answer

  And the question that Chris Matthews (Chris Matthews?!?) refuses to let them avoid.
  
  

  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

  
  This is the issue: you either want women in jail for murder, or you want it to be legal. Or, you [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 4:06pm EST
  

• Never Forget

  Unless it can help you politically.
  
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:14pm EST
  

• Real Americans

  Yoooooou betcha!
  
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:53pm EST
  

• You Don't Get No Cookie

  
  Thanksgiving Prayer By: William S. Burroughs
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:47pm EST
  

• The Purity Test

  Michael Steele all bout it, bout it:
  Yesterday, Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp unveiled a resolution to deny funding of candidates who do not uphold right-wing conservative values. The resolution, termed a “purity test,” is being touted as a mechanism for actually avoiding the party schism that occurred [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:47pm EST
  

• Please Redirect Your Comments to This Post

  Or: Wingnuts breathe a collective sigh of relief as U.S. Census worker Bill Sparkman's death is ruled a suicide. To wit, I oppose the death penalty, even for theoretical murderers of federal employees.
  
  Though I am sure this news is both shocking and unbearable for Mr. Sparkman's' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:39pm EST
  

• Better Democrats

  Louisville has chosen Democrat Tom Riner to be their State Representative since 1982. Despite the fact that he's a complete nutjob who is responsible for these wonderful amendments that we all know and love:
  One required that training materials include information that the General Assembly stressed a "dependence on'" [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:50pm EST
  

• Rand is confused

  Sure, about whether states manage Medicaid. But why is he calling for the continuation of this EVIL COMMUNIST ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM FOR POOR LAZY PEOPLE?!? I thought he was going to get rid of it and Medicare and Social Security, just like a true White Male Liberty Patriot would do?
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  

• Jack Conway wants to kill people

  How very tough of him.
  Kentucky Attorney General and (U.S. Senate candidate) Jack Conway requested three death warrants this morning. The figure would double the number of citizens the commonwealth has executed since the death penalty was re-established in 1976.
  
  Conway’s request to Gov. Steve Beshear to set [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:46pm EST
  

• Pro-Life Friends of Mongiardo

  What Jake says:
  Dear Virginia Woodward and Eleanor Jordan:
  
  Care to tell Kentucky why you - pro-choice leaders - are ardently supporting anti-choicer and hypocrite Daniel Mongiardo? Is it because you’re sell-outs or because you just had no idea he was anti-everything you stand for?
  
  And to [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:02pm EST
  

• Gimme Dat Christian Side Hug

  Cause only homos, pussies and Jews gimme dat front hug.
  
  This is, objectively, the greatest thing ever:
  
  

  Christian Side Hug from The Fathers House on Vimeo.

  (h/t Buckman)
  
  UPDATE: The wonderful Erica Sackin pulls out this lyric:
  “I’m a rough rider filled with Christ [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:26pm EST
  

• Trey Grayson and Van Jones, sitting in a tree

  The Paulbots have found the damning evidence that Trey Grayson is a secret treehugging Communist who once burnt American flags with Van Terruh Jones. Grayson's affiliation with Mitch "Red Commie" McConnell was enough, but now his ties with The Most Evil Person to Ever Exist has totally ended his [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:06pm EST
  

• Ship 'em back to Europe

  Fun with Teabaggers. I approve this message.
  
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:34am EST
  

• "Boldness and Courage"

  That is what Dear Sarah says are the characteristics of those who show up to buy her book. Totes.
  
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  

• Must-see exhibit tonight in Lexington

  Richie Wireman's multi-year project about my former favorite block of Lexington (and it's destruction to make way for Dudley's Invisible Unicorn Park) is showing tonight at Bellini's Ballroom tonight during Gallery Hop from 5:30 to 9:30.
  
  Read Schankula's ACE piece about it here.
  
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:41pm EST
  

• Steve Beshear is getting stuff done!

  And by getting stuff done, I mean firing people for trying to stop illegal mining.
  
  Yea.
  The former head of Kentucky’s mine permit division, who was fired last week by Gov. Steve Beshear, said Tuesday that he had been trying to block what he called illegal mining [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:29pm EST
  

• Where is Putin's head?

  Alaska, doncha know? Don't let those evil media libruls tell you otherwise, because Sarah Barracuda kept us safe from their Commie attack during her less than half-term up there.
  
  
  Get all of your Going Rogue hilarity here.
  
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:16pm EST
  

• Rand Paul: lying flip flopper

  It seems that Rand Paul, now finding himself ahead in the polls, is going to go conservative by scrubbing his "kooky" positions from the internet tubes.
  Facing heat from Grayson about his Guantanamo stance (which he shared with his father), it appears that he is now scrubbing his past [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:26am EST
  

• The Onion interviews a Rand Paul supporter

  And he made us all proud:
  Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be
  
  Spurred by an administration he believes to be guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 47, is a vehement defender of ideas he seems to think are enshrined in [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:43pm EST
  

• This Rand is your Rand

  Remember this hilarity?
  
  
  
  She's back, and I have no clue what it is...
  
  
  
  Deficits, and stuff, yo. [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:19pm EST
  

• New PPP Poll: Majority of Republicans are retarded

  Don't yell at me, it's a real poll:
  The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D) has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base: Republicans do not think President Obama actually won the 2008 election -- instead, ACORN stole it.
  
  *********
  
  The poll asked' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:37pm EST
  

• Dan Mongiardo wants all of your uterus

  Remember all those Mongiardo trolls who were yelling at me for suggesting that Dan Mongiardo isn't pro-choice? Yea, well...
  
  
  
  Case closed.
  
  Dan Mongiardo wants to make abortion illegal.' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:29pm EST
  

• Fear and Snoring at the Newberry campaign "kick off"

  Apparently, Jim Newberry's first announcement that he is running for re-election as Lexington Mayor wasn't enough, as his special friends decided to throw a party for him in the posh Thoroughbred Room at the Civic Center last night.
  
  My first thought as I walked into the room was that' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:35am EST
  

• Liveblog: HCFA "Is it time to lift the Travel Ban to Cuba?"

  10:18 - Starting a little late (why does the wireless always fail at the exact moment you need it?!?)
  10:20 - Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is much more pleasant than expected. She thinks that there should be no change in policy until there is regime change... how well has that been working [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:21am EST
  

• 10am EST liveblogging of the HCFA hearing on "Is it Time to Lift the Travel Ban to Cuba?"

  Dear readers,
  
  Tomorrow morning I will be liveblogging the much anticipated full, open HCFA hearing on "Is it Time to Lift the Travel Ban to Cuba?"... and I am pretty excited about it - it is GUARANTEED to be full of fireworks from all kinds of interesting characters.
  
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:24pm EST
  

• The funnest race in America just got more fun

  Meet Gurley L. Martin, the newest candidate in the 2010 US Senate race from Kentucky:
  FRANKFORT — Gurley L. Martin, who will turn 86 on Nov. 27, plopped down $500 Monday in the secretary of state’s office to file as a Republican candidate in next year’s U.S. Senate race.
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:18pm EST
  

• Blue Baby Jeebus

  Watup?
  
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:39pm EST
  

• Love To Me Is So Unreal

  I know I've publicly been against the trappings of romance in the past, but this man has done up and melted this cold feminist heart:
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:07pm EST
  

• No Bitch-Ass-Ness: You'll Get No Money From Me, Mr. Conway

  (Don't know what the hell I'm talking about? Urban up.)
  
  After much anguish, Harry Reid made sure that the public option was in the Senate bill. Give to Harry Reid.
  
  60 House Democrats asked for permission to vote against the House Bill, 20 more than the [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:33pm EST
  

• Rand Hulk SMASH Medicare

  From Rand Paul's "Libertastic Health Care Freedom Forum" this Saturday:
  Paul said that 90 percent of health care is elective, not emergency.
  
  “What I hear from my patients is not there’s an access problem, it’s that it’s so expensive.”
  
  Paul blamed government intervention into the market via [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:10am EST
  

• A message for the Jack Conway campaign

  Thinking that you can go the entire campaign without taking any public position on an issue besides "pedophiles are bad" is not going to work. You will lose. Badly. And deserve to.
  
  Love,
  
  MC [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:50am EST
  

• Mitch and Trey make a deal?

  The pure entertainment over in the Republican Senate primary of Kentucky just got even more fun. In the aftermath of the interesting meeting uncovered between Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, comes this juicy paragraph from a Wall Street Journal story about the rift in the Republican Party between the [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 3:39pm EST
  

• “I breathed in an autumn bouquet that combined everything small-town America with rugged splashes of the Last Frontier”

  This looks like the must-steal laugh riot book of the year, folks.
  Elsewhere in this volume, she talks about creationism, saying she “didn’t believe in the theory that human beings — thinking, loving beings — originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea” or from [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:43pm EST
  

• The Other Point Guard

  Mmm hmm
  
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 2:28pm EST
  

• New York Times covers douche

  No, not someone who is a douche. Literally, the word "douche".
  LOS ANGELES — On many nights this fall, it has been possible to tune in to broadcast network television during prime time and hear a character call someone else a “douche.”
  
  In just the last several weeks, [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 12:33pm EST
  

• Boehner and Ben

  Love it.
  
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:11am EST
  

• More idiocy and bigotry from Miss Pizzabagger

  Everybody's favorite hypocrite teabagger waxes philosophical on Nancy Pelosi and health care:
  Nazi Pelosi and her gang of merry men laughed at the Founding Fathers and voted on something in complete and open defiance of the will of the American people they represent. And those awful "the'" [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:36pm EST
  

• Rand Paul "Health Care Townhall" in Lexington Saturday

  
  If those of you in Lexington want a dose of White Male Liberty Patriotism:
  Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009
  Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
  Location: The Hilton Suites at Lexington Green
  Street: 245 Lexington Green CircleFrom the FB event comments:
  Sorry, I will miss it but [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:44pm EST